Scare Tolerance: how easily you scare, measured by Gasper
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Scare Tolerance is Gasper's read on how easily you scare, found by comparing your scare scores with the community's on the same films.
Scare Tolerance is Gasper's answer to the question every horror fan gets asked: how easily do you scare? Instead of asking you to guess, it compares the scare scores you gave with the Community Scare on the same films and names where you land.
How it is measured
Every film you rank has your score and the community's average. Scare Tolerance averages the gap across all of them. Within a point of the crowd is Steady Nerve: you scare about as easily as most of the community. One to four points higher than the crowd is Easily Spooked, and further than that is Terror-Prone. One to four points lower is Hard to Rattle, and further than that is Unshakeable.
It is all time, not yearly, and it is built only from films where both your score and a Community Scare exist. Rank more films and it sharpens.
Why it matters
Scare Tolerance makes your other numbers readable. A 7.4 from someone who is Easily Spooked and a 7.4 from someone who is Unshakeable are not the same 7.4, and knowing which you are lets you read your own list, and your friends' lists, more honestly.
It can also reassure. Plenty of people avoid horror because they think they are "too easily scared". On Gasper that is just a tolerance, and there are whole shelves of films, from comedy horror to the slow burns, that suit it.
In Gasper
Scare Tolerance is the first card on your Profile's Taste tab, under the line "How easily films scare you", alongside the rest of your fear stats: hours watched, your Hottest Take, your Deepest Cut, your top subgenre, your top watch partner and your fear twin. It opens your Bloodwork too. It needs a few ranked films before it shows a reading, and like everything in Gasper it is free.
Questions people ask
What does Steady Nerve mean?
It is the label for landing within a point of the crowd. Your scare scores and the Community Scare on the same films mostly agree.
Does a low tolerance mean I am bad at horror?
It means horror works on you, which is the point of horror. Gasper uses it to describe you, not to grade you.
Is Scare Tolerance free?
Yes. Everything in Gasper is free, your Taste tab included.
Go deeper
- FeatureScare ToleranceYour scare scores against the community's on the same films, named plainly, with your fear stats beside it.
- GuideGetting Into Horror If You Scare Easily: A Kind On-RampA gentle way into horror for people who scare easily: gateway films, watching with the lights on, which subgenres to start with and what Scare Tolerance will say
Related terms
- Deepest CutYour Deepest Cut is the horror film in your rankings that the fewest other Gasper members have ranked, shown on your Taste tab and in your Bloodwork.
- Fear statsYour fear stats are the all-time figures on your Gasper profile's Taste tab, including Scare Tolerance, hours watched, Hottest Take, Deepest Cut, top subgenre and fear twin.
- Hottest TakeYour Hottest Take is the film on Gasper where your scare score differs most from the Community Scare, in either direction.
- BloodworkBloodwork is Gasper's tap-through story of everything you have ranked: tolerance, scariest watch, hours, dominant fear, streak, Hottest Take, Deepest Cut and fear twin.
Rank what scared you.
Free on the App Store. Log a film tonight, answer which was scarier, and watch your rankings take shape.
